Getting journalists from different organisations to work together is not always easy; but when the Data Journalism Handbook is published next week it will be the fruit of months of painstaking collaboration.

The book's contributors are a who's who of data journalism. There are pieces by data journalists from the BBC, the Chicago Tribune, the Financial Times, Propublica and the New York Times. And that's besides contributions from three of us at the Guardian

Edited by Liliana Bounegru, Jonathan Gray and Lucy Chambers, the book will be made freely available online under a CC BY-SA license so anyone can read and share it. Additionally a printed version and an e-book will be published by O'Reilly Media. If you want to be notified when the book is released, you can sign up on the website.